Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Why aren't BE's making a fortune supplying your tissues to Chefs and Tailors ??
Chef stuff is easier to make. There is such a high demand for it that when we make the stuff its gone that same day, so im sure that is why you are having a problem finding BE's to supply you.
For the most part you have to con guildies into hunting, do it yourself, or offer large amounts of money to get a few runs in. Currently on Lowca we have an awesome quality Naboo reptile meat, but even offering 50 cpu it gets hard to find sellers - there's always someone else out there willing to pay more (and hence, you end up with the 50k, or more, crates).
It's always worth a laugh when I see some chef come on with a new pricing plan for BE's, that involve this magical and mysterious 5 cpu meat they seem to think exists in 100k stacks right next to the flora they're buying. We can make it in quantity, or we can make it cheap, but we can't do both until the devs add meat farms.
Tevys wrote:
Probably because it takes a lot of resources and good resources. Between all the chef stuff and the tailor stuff we can make, it is like every type of meat out there and tons of dif kinds of organics. My biggest problem is inventory space if you throw in pets and DNA.
I never have enough resources. When i do a run of tissues it takes like 4 dif kinds of meats for some, soemtimes eggs and mullusk and those are not easy to aquire.
Chef stuff is easier to make. There is such a high demand for it that when we make the stuff its gone that same day, so im sure that is why you are having a problem finding BE's to supply you.
I make most of my money off of petstims. /shrug
/agree
I am a master tailor/master BE and I can hardly gather enough resources to supply my own business, much less anyone else's. My husband is a master chef, so he keeps me busy doing that, too. The amount of meat to make just one run of anything is hard to get...so there is no way I could sell to anyone else. Plus, when you can make a pet that sells for 75K in about 10-20 minutes of sampling (or less if you get lucky), why sell a crate of tissues for 50K that takes 1-2 hours just to gather the resources?
But we ARE making money.
My only problem is that I can't keep up with demand, and have started turning down orders that aren't at least from solid referrals. I have no stock on hand, and everything ordered must wait days for completion. My quality resources are depleted.
And I don't even make pets ona regular basis.
It's not because I don't want your business, it's because I've got a few customers keeping me VERY busy and I don't want to spend 24/7 buying meat and crafting components.
Typical conversation:
They - Yo.
Me - Yo?
They - Can you make me a pet/chef additives/clothing tissues?
Me - Love to man, but backed up on orders.
They - DAMMIT! I'll pay you twice your asking price!
Me - That's not the point, I don't have the stuff or the time.
They - I CAN'T FIND A SINGLE BE ON THE SERVER TO HELP ME!!!
Me - Sorry man.
And I'm not even searchable.
It's not monopoly, you don't win if you get the most money, maybe?
I got 250K in the bank. Not a lot by any stretch, but still more than I need for a while, a long while. So, I can buy 100k of resources, craft till I turn blue and end up with a few hundred K. And I'm further along how? Did I have fun?
Nah.
1) Not enough meat. Trying to keep up with demand is just impossible.
2) Making only components. As Marx pointed out, there is a certain satisfaction with making an item that isn't there when only making a component that will go into an item. Separation of labor.
3) CH/BE. Most BEs get into it to make their own creatures.
4) BE is just plain difficult. I know those that don't play it scoff at that notion, but there are tons of ex-BEs out there that will tell you it was too hard or just plain too boring.
Beech,
I am on Sunrunner and would gladly give this a go for ya. Tell me what you need and I'll do some searching and give you a price.